America's rise in obesity isn't just raising health alarms. It is challenging designers of all sorts of consumer products, including car safety experts, who are moving to a morbidly-obese crash test dummy. Meanwhile, in Russia, Apple's gay CEO is under attack. France and Spain, however, seem more worried about clowns. Those stories and more in this weekend's Global Scan.

After receiving little help from the European Union, Italy is considering closing down its "Mare Nostrum" operation. The operation was designed to rescue immigrants stuck out at sea. Now countries in the European Union say they can't afford to support this operation.

Many Africans are headed north, to the European Union, looking for better jobs and a better life. One of the easiest ways to get into the EU is without even leaving Africa. Many migrants are coming to Europe by ways of Spain's exclaves in North Africa

Encounters between hungry bears and people are increasingly common in Russia. But one encounter had an unexpected twist — and suggests a new use for that outdated computer. Meanwhile, in Hong Kong, the city's top leader says the city's poor can't be trusted with the right to vote. And Rwanda starts screening Americans for Ebola. Those stories and more in today's Global Scan.

Cave art has long been viewed as an illustration of the emergence of human culture, with most of the oldest findings coming in Europe. But a new finding in Indonesia raises questions about when cave art first emerged, and whether art may have been a fundamental part of humanity dating to its days in Africa. That story and more in today's Global Scan.

A Spanish nurse has become the first person known to be infected with Ebola outside of West Africa during the current outbreak. Spanish health officials are baffled why their anti-infection procedures failed, but workers at the hospital complained last year that their infection training wasn't good enough.